‘The latest loss merely mimicked the story of the season so far. The Sabres failed in their attempt to win back-to-back games, missed multiple scoring chances and lost another key player, this time center Derek Roy.’

‘He’ll become the third Buffalo player to hit the 500 mark this season, joining Derek Roy and Thomas Vanek. It’s the third time in team history three players have reached the milestone in the same season, joining the 1977-78 trio of Craig Ramsay, Don Luce and Rick Martin, and the 2003-04 group of Curtis Brown, Jay McKee and Miroslav Satan.’

‘Officials of Time Warner Cable and MSG Media will meet next week with representatives from State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman’s office in an attempt to resolve the dispute that has left many local hockey fans unable to watch telecasts of Buffalo Sabres games.’

‘”I don’t want to stand here and talk about grade-A scoring chances because we probably had our highest total for the whole year and we walked out of there with two goals,” said Buffalo head coach Lindy Ruff. “It’s frustrating.”‘

‘Tyler Myers’ return wasn’t enough to give the Sabres a boost in Carolina on Friday night. Eric Staal, who has struggled for the better part of this season, racked up 3 points in a 4-2 Hurricanes win.’

‘There are 39 games gone, many of them wasted. With Ruff going with Miller and junking his goaltending rotation he said, “We’re at a stage now where we have to start making a move. We’re starting to get healthy, we just got Nathan back which was a plus for us. Getting Myers back should be a plus on the back end. We’re still missing a couple of key pieces on the back end, but we’ve got to set course, we’ve got to win games. We’re going to have to win some game where we don’t play well in, but the goaltender steals it.”’